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Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
When Words Allide, Plain Meaning Wins
Navigating the Mighty Mississippi and the English language have quite a bit in common. Sometimes it takes a lot of skill and creativity to get where you want to go.…
The Faculty Lounge
Mockingbird Litigation — The Legal Issue
My earlier post discussed what we might call the "literary issues" in the current litigation over the Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird. I concluded that Aaron Sorkin's proposed…
Market Intelligence for Strategic Advantage
Today in Legal Artificial Intelligence
Implementation of the GDPR is only a couple of months away, so from Healthcare IT News, here's "Europe's GDPR privacy law is coming: Here's what US health orgs need to…
Strangelaw, Esq.
Robots vs. Lawyers – A Nuanced Take
By Eli Edwards
Did you see this study? If you follow #legaltech in any online sphere, it was ubiquitous. AI vs. Lawyers [pretty infographic here, 40-page PDF - you have to submit your…
Beneficially Yours
The Supreme Court Says Goodbye to the Yard-Man Inference Again and Reaffirms Ordinary Principles of Contract Law Apply When Interpreting Collective Bargaining Agreements
By: Meg Troy and Ron Kramer Seyfarth Synopsis: Disputes over lifetime retiree health benefits for union retirees may become a memory of the past. For the second time in three…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Chancery Interprets “Reasonable Efforts” Clause
Several recent Delaware decisions, as noted on these pages earlier this week here, and commented on here, have added to the case law that still only amounts to a relatively modest body…
The Lien Zone
Do You Have These 2 Provisions in Your Contracts?
By Alex Barthet
Every company seems to have its own form of contract these days. Whether it’s the general contractor, the plumber, or the tile distributor, everyone wants you to sign “their” contract,…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
How much of lawyering is being a copy-and-paste monkey?
First, an unqualified endorsement: Ken Adams's A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, Fourth Edition is essential for every professional involved in the contracting process from negotiation and drafting to…
Federal Securities Law Source
Boilerplate provisions in a contract
The term “boilerplate” refers to standardized language in a contract that usually appears at the end of the agreement (often in a section titled “miscellaneous” or “general terms”). While boilerplate…
Global IP & Technology Law Blog
Contracting parties should take notice of the latest interpretation ruling
In the case of Zayo Group International Limited v Ainger and others, the High Court has adopted a literal interpretation of notice provisions in a commercial agreement. As a result,…